The dead are talking...and she is listening

Bill:
Ah, can somebody call that Ghost Whispahrah chick because I've got a new case for her.

 

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Doug:
No kidding. Fahget the kid hit by a train who doesn't know he's dead yet. Ovah heah I've got a 25 guys run ovah by the Yankee Express a month ago but who insist they're still alive.

 

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Bill:
And aftah that I've got anothah spooky script for Ms Love Hewitt to read. It's called "I Still, Still, Still, er, Still, Know What You Did Last Summah! (And it wasn't 'Wins the AL East')"

 

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Doug:
Seriously. It's the perfect slashah/horrah film sequel set up. The evil nemesis is finally killed in 2004 and everybody can rest easy, laughing and splashing on the beach, nubile chicks in bikinis and all, it's a year latah and not a care in the world …

 

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Bill:
And then the overly serious and ominous voice ovah says: "Some secrets will haunt you forevah." Cue sounds of screaming.

 

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Doug:
Of course, in memory of last season, we should be more optimistic. Rationally there is no need to panic. And yet …

 

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Bill:
Happiness is founded on forgetting -- only wisdom, poor wisdom relies on memory.

 

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Author's Notes

Bill's final speech is a reworking of a line that appears in the Richard Howard poem "For David Kalstone, 1932–86"

Comments

[pawsoxpop]

Actually, there was one connection between baseball and politics that I read about yesterday in the excellent feature about Yaz on boston.com. Ironically, it involved Steinbrenner and a DEMOCRAT, not a Republican. Yaz says that as his career was winding down, Steinbrenner asked Tip O'Neill if he could get Yaz to play one last year as a Yankee. God Bless him, Tip told Steinbrenner where to stick it. Of course, I'm sure he was doing it for not only the right reason (Tip was a big-time Sox fan) but also for the smart reason (he would have had BIG-TIME trouble at the ballot box if he had ever convinced Captain Carl to go the MFY).

[spd_rdr]

An hour 'till game time.
Beer me.

[Kaz]

As a note, because I keep hearing about the ChiSox and AAA and oh no, they'll hand the Indians wins:

The Chicago White Sox are not yet assured home field advantage for the ALCS. Let's just assume that they lose the next three to Cleveland. The Yankees could still win 3 of 4 and tie the White Sox record and their season series is tied at 3-3. I don't know who gets home field then, but it'd be easier for Chicago to win at least two this weekend and clinch home-field through the playoffs.

Am I doing this right? I don't understand why this isn't expressed in any of the "White Sox Clinch" articles that I can find.

[Kaz]

PS - The Red Sox will make all of that moot anyways by taking all 3 games this weekend and leaving the Yankees to figure out their WC chances against the Indians.

[pawsoxpop]

That's what I'm talkin' about Kaz! Forget the Indians. Just sweep the Yankees out of town. Get the brooms out people, let's go!!!

[Billy Mahty]

Another thing to think about.. if I'm the White Sox, do I want to get spanked around by the Indians this weekend and then have to face them a few days later? Probably not.

[Devine]

Oh please...not again.

Graffanino double...turn this around, PLEASE!

[NV in SD]

Just wanted to posit this before the Millah Lite made me forget:

Fuck Jerry Trupiano. If you're auditioning for your national broadcasting job, do it somewhere else besides 'EEI. Comments like "And its on a hop to Hinskie- and he may have SAVED THE GAME on that one..."

fuck you Trup- it's called you're a local brodacaster. Act like it.

AS wrote this Papi hit the game tying HR. ANyone else wanna bitch about Trup- I think it might be good luck

[Devine]

DAVID FUCKING ORTIZ!!! GAME-TYING HOMER, GAME-WINNING SINGLE!!!

WHO'S YOUR FUCKING DADDY?

*breathes*

Okay, thank you. I can breathe. Warm-up act, I can only hope.